Demographic variables |
Beekeeping experience (years) |
16.90 |
15.6 |
Health responsibility |
Bee health/environment |
80.1 |
25.7 |
|
Flanders |
17.3 |
15.7 |
|
Honey quality (for human consumption) |
90.9 |
19.7 |
|
Wallonia |
16.1 |
15.6 |
|
Colony loss is more than a material loss |
91.7 |
16.6 |
|
Gender |
|
|
|
A colony replaceability |
43.8 |
31.9 |
|
Male % |
91 |
|
|
Honey production is as important as bee health |
80 |
26.6 |
|
Female % |
76.1 |
|
Intention and actions |
Avoid bringing
into winter too weak colonies |
73.1 |
33 |
|
No. colonies September 1, 2016 |
11 |
14.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
No. splits /increases/buy between September 1, 2016 and April 1, 2017 |
5.2 |
7 |
|
Avoid bringing into winter too strong colonies |
14.8 |
23.5 |
|
No. colonies sold/given away between September 1, 2016 and April 1,
2017 |
1.7 |
3.4 |
|
Equalizing colony strength by gathering two weak
ones |
54.6 |
37.5 |
|
No. living colonies on April 1, 2017 |
16.3 |
20.3 |
|
Resilience to
environmental changes |
73.2 |
28.7 |
|
Average losses (%) 2017 |
14.5 |
22.4 |
|
Equipment hygiene before
reusing equipment |
78.1 |
29.5 |
|
Dutch-speaking |
13.7 |
22.4 |
|
Treatment combination ( Varroa
control) |
73.1 |
34.1 |
|
French-speaking |
16.2 |
22.5 |
|
|
|
|
Relative risk aversion |
Psychological characteristics |
60.4 |
13.8 |
|
Regularly monitor for Varroa infestation levels |
77.9 |
27.8 |
Climate changes |
Susceptibility |
65.2 |
31.3 |
|
Treatment
only if affected by moderate to high infestations of Varroa |
39.5 |
36.2 |
|
Severity |
59.7 |
32.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Benefits |
60.3 |
24.7 |
|
Use varroacides more sensibly (delay
resistance development) |
65.5 |
38 |
|
Barriers |
72.2 |
29.9 |
|
|
|
|
Varroa infestation |
Susceptibility |
85.2 |
24.1 |
|
Waxes
replacement every 4 years |
83.3 |
25.9 |
|
Severity |
65.8 |
22.3 |
|
Avoid wild swarms introduction without
quarantine/treatment |
70.9 |
35.9 |
|
Benefits |
64.8 |
20 |
|
|
|
|
|
Barriers |
63.1 |
25.3 |
Influences |
Colonies mortality |
76.8 |
28.8 |
Exposure to pesticides |
Susceptibility veterinary pesticides |
19.5 |
25.4 |
|
Unions/federation |
56.8 |
31.2 |
|
Susceptibility agricultural pesticides |
37.4 |
31 |
|
Research and
information centre |
65.4 |
29.4 |
|
Severity |
69.0 |
21.6 |
|
Universities |
55.0 |
33.2 |
|
Benefits |
58.9 |
22.3 |
|
Newspapers, journals, magazines, internet |
54.6 |
30.2 |
|
Barriers to veterinary pesticides |
39.2 |
36.2 |
|
Federal Agency for
the Safety of the Food Chain recommendations |
53.7 |
32 |
|
Barriers agricultural pesticides |
65.0 |
31.1 |
|
|
|
|
Management practices |
Susceptibility |
87.9 |
20.3 |
|
Own
health |
77.6 |
29.3 |
|
Severity |
86.4 |
20 |
|
Environment protection |
83 |
23.2 |
|
Benefits |
67.4 |
16 |
|
Honey production |
52.4 |
30.9 |
|
Barriers |
72.6 |
16.4 |
|
Packages/queen production |
54 |
35 |